Someone just posted a picture of their breakfast on Facebook

[MikeMA]

They should move to a dedicated service, rather than clogging up these. How about Fillyourfacebook, and Snackchat.

Yeah! ....or a complete break with tradition and go for something like Chokeonmychopsandsausage.

 

[Marchbanks]

What a strange world we live in - if I have a plate of food in front of me the last thing on my mind is to upload it onto the internet.

Is that a euphemism? As in ‘I’m really sorry, I’ve just uploaded my lunch - I haven’t been well lately’?

 

[MikeMA]

Obsessing about one's food is as vulgar as obsessing about one's money, houses and furniture.

 

[MikeMA]

we do all the time. It is nice to be able to remember a meal

You need a picture to do this? You must be joking, surely?

 

[claire.foxx]

It's a desperately sad thing to do. It just shows how empty some peoples lives are.

Right now my life is pretty empty. I can empathise with ppl who do this.I do similar but with songwriting and uploading my work to the internet. Locked here in the middle of nowhere since early March and I cannot even get back to the Bay Area if It was safe to because flying restrictions.

Oh for goodness sake they’ve been doing it for years, it’s absolutely nothing to do with lockdowns. It’s attention seeking and/or the addiction to having to post on social media to pretend to everyone else how great their life is. Facebook is poisonous frankly!

I was talking more about recent upsurge in people uploading photos of things like “look at this loaf of bread” or bottles of wine like Marchbanks here posts — or people getting creative with cooking since lockdown... but it applies longer term as we live ever more alienated lives. If you think attention seeking is done on a boomer-infested hellsite like Facebook with pictures of plates of food then you really are living in some kind of gatekeepery hell and I cannot really relate. It’s harmless and life is incredibly lonely for some people; it is for me without these thousands of tiny points of contacts. Mind you I don’t use Facebook. Toxic. Twitter can be but with many block filters and adblockers and tracking blockers to let through only trans-furry-punks and furry porn I find it’s Ideal. Each to their own.

Put it another way, I would rather photos of plates of food than unsolicited dick pics (got my 2nd today).

 

[scotty38]

Someone just posted a picture of a picture of breakfast on Facebook on an audio forum........

 

[gavreid]

I'm going to try this I think

 

[Joe P]

How about a picture of a chipmunk eating a wild raspberry for breakfast?

Joe

 

[Bart]

According to my guidelines (which I’m sure I’ll be corrected on soon) that’s 3 times as much cheese and 3 times as many eggs as you should eat in a day. Having said that I’d probably cave in and happily settle for 2/3 of what’s on the plate.

 

[gintonic]

You need a picture to do this? You must be joking, surely?

yes absolutely- deadly serious. Do upu remember the details of a slap up meal i 2018?

 

[gintonic]

It's a desperately sad thing to do. It just shows how empty some peoples lives are.

what a load of nonsense, just because you don't understand dont cast aspersions on others fun

my life is full, fulfilled and highly successful i enjoy taking pictures of everything around me, inc food. Just holiday snaps.

not sad, but fun.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

what a load of nonsense, just because you don't understand dont cast aspersions on others fun

my life is full, fulfilled and highly successful i enjoy taking pictures of everything around me, inc food. Just holiday snaps.

not sad, but fun.

I think taking pics is ok, if you’re eating something you want to remember, but seeking validation by sharing on social media is sad.

 

[RJohan]

I wouldn't know. Once or maybe twice I accidently happened on a strange internet place that might be what you guys are on about. I hastily left.

 

[narabdela]

Oh for goodness sake they’ve been doing it for years, it’s absolutely nothing to do with lockdowns. It’s attention seeking and/or the addiction to having to post on social media to pretend to everyone else how great their life is. Facebook is poisonous frankly!

I couple sat near us in an Indian Restaurant pre-lockdown last year. They than painstakingly photographed each course as it arrived and spent the rest of the meal staring at their phones, even eating with a fork in one hand and the phone in the other! I suppose they must have exchanged a few words with one another...at least I hope they did.

 

[webster]

The only thing that would interest me about a meal I had 2 years ago would be who I enjoyed it with - be that friends or family - definitely not what I ate.

 

[gintonic]

but seeking validation by sharing on social media is sad

I post it on a social media site as it is a convenient location. People occasionally comment i don't seek anything from them.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

I keep my photos on my computer. I find that sufficiently convenient for my purposes. But to be fair, I don’t tend to photograph my food.

 

[Joe P]

When life imitates art.

Joe

 

[gintonic]

I keep my photos on my computer. I find that sufficiently convenient for my purposes. But to be fair, I don’t tend to photograph my food.

mine are all online, and on a NAS at home. The ones online are the ones we share with our family and friends.....yes we have a wide circle.....

we don't use any local storage on individual devices for any files.

 

[gintonic]

be ready for pictures from the pub tonight